leptokurtic
C2CEFR level
98/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
Describing a distribution with fatter tails and a sharper peak than the normal distribution.
Because asset returns are leptokurtic, the model badly understated the odds of an extreme move.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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